RUSSIA’S & CHINA’S LONG TERM STRATEGIC PLANS FOR EUROPE & ASIA INCLUDE PSYOPS TO DIVIDE THE WEST
The war in Ukraine is not a partisan, not an ideological, not a political, but a global security issue.
SPYWARE, ELITE CAPTURE & ACTIVE MEASURES ARE BEING USED AGAINST AMERICA’S POLITICIANS, MEDIA, AND CITIZENS.
PSYOPS are planned and coordinated Intelligence operations designed to target an enemy’s vulnerabilities and to influence their population. The elite capture of media personalities targets public sentiment - meant to divide Americans and Europeans, to weaken existing alliances.
These specifically attack the rationale for America’s and NATO’s involvement in the Ukraine war.
The goal is to demoralize a large segment of America’s political class and citizens to result in a change of sentiment, vaporize the national will to prevail, and end with the defunding of the war.
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China will bolster Russia with armaments to wage a war of attrition against the West to further its own interests. China hopes to reduce American appetite as well as the inventory of equipment that might challenge it in the South China Seas. Chinese hegemony in the region is thus preserved by propping up Vladimir Putin’s failed assault on Europe.
Ukraine is not a NATO country – and there lie more complications. For one:
Putin: region Hungarians live in is old Russian land
Vladimir Putin had no intention to stop at Ukraine. Ji has no intention of stopping at Taiwan.
The cost so far to the USA of the Ukrainian war is 1.6% of GDP. The cost of WWI was 52% of the American GDP. Accordingly, perhaps we might spare ourselves the crocodile tears about the “large” expense.
Ronald Reagan won the Cold War by outspending the Soviets. We won against the Nazis and Japanese by outspending them both and by using a monopoly of violence. In both cases we preserved modern, western civilization.
SPYWARE
Externally-generated psyops made-to-look domestic in origin, are mean to sow fear, doubt and insecurity by disseminating false history about the Ukrainian affair; to weaken the Kremlin’s targets, so that the Kremlin’s adversaries wage war against themselves instead of the Kremlin.
These processes are meant to undermine America’s historic bipartisan resolve, counter the doctrines of a series of American presidents – some of which (see below) are aimed specifically at America’s current adversaries. Better yet, to compromise and remove actors who strengthen the West’s resolve.
Networked across platforms, psyops (propaganda stoking fear and skepticism) is meant to kneecap the west’s mission, promote eastern narratives, and raise doubt in the value of modern western civilization itself. Clearly, if Europe fell, so will European-American civilization.
Anti-Ukraine narratives pumped into the western media, the “news” rewritten in alternative and social media, even in academic papers and pop culture, are directed at the west’s operations and policy. They are meant to be literally invisible by employing “friendly” and trusted - “usual suspects” media and political faces.
Psyops’ are deceptive,using usually illogical arguments against U.S. involvement and financing, and are presented such that audiences unfamiliar with military history will not question the origins, motives, or the history of the parties who flood propaganda into the American consciousness.
Popular arguments:
* The U.S. spent a hundred billion securing Ukraine’s borders, 3000 miles away. But not a dime on securing our own. ANSWER: One border, a domestic, immigration issue, has nothing to do with Ukraine’s, a global security issue that impacts dozens of nations and five continents. Moreover, the U. S. has not spent such sums and many European nations have in fact spent far more per capita. Conflating one issue with the other is a logical fallacy.
* Ukraine’s Nazis. Its leader is a corrupt tyrant. ANSWER: Russia has half the entire world’s nazis on its soil fighting for Putin who’s been awarding his Nazis medals of valor. The Kremlin’s WAGNER GROUP, named after Hitler’s favorite composer, fight for Russia. They intend to murder Ukraine’s Jewish leader. So far they have murdered tens of thousands of Christians who rather worship at Ukrainian, and not Russian Orthodox churches approved by Vladimir Putin. Lastly, unlike the Russians, the Ukrainians elect officials from various parties in a Democratic Parliament.
* China will join Russia to overwhelm the west. ANSWER: China entered the fray decades ago. Russia and China make for a unified bullwark against western hegemony. China’s taking up the slack in Russian oil sales, at lower than market prices, and its contravening international sanctions, benefit China. China has doubled the volume of energy trade with Russia, along with other trade, in an alliance that won’t be broken. These, on top of perpetrating banking violations to improve the Russian economy and weaken ours.
* Biden’s trip to Kyiv to prop up the “corrupt” Ukrainian “regime” ignored East Palestine and the burning railroad “national disaster.” ANSWER: a. The trip to Ukraine was decided months ago. b. Before the Kyiv trip Biden consciously decided to ignore East Palestine, the same way he ignores the Mexican border. c. East Palestine is not a national disaster. A national disaster was Katrina, Fukushima, Pompeii, the Indonesia tsunami, and the Turkey-Syria earthquake with 46,000 dead.
Russia never had a parliamentary democracy. It has one dominant political faction. Russia’s strongman travels on a 140 ft. 532 million euro superyacht with two heliports and a personal submarine in tow. He has stashed away tens, if not hundreds of billions for himself.
Meanwhile, the Kremlin’s U.S. media collaborators propagandize audiences about Zelenskyy’s and Ukraine’s corruption. Zelenskyy’s annual salary is 14,000 euros.
ACTIVNYE MEROPRIYATIYA - активные мероприятия
“…Aktivnye meropriyatiya, “active measures” Soviet origin…describe a gamut of covert and deniable political influence and subversion operations, including (but not limited to) the establishment of front organizations, the backing of friendly political movements and media, the orchestration of domestic unrest and the spread of disinformation. (Indeed, the Committee for State Security [KGB - now FSB/GRU] Service A, its primary active measures department, was originally Service D, meaning disinformation.)
· A strategic culture whose participants see the world full of secret threats and an operational culture whose adherents regard the best defense as offense have ensured that both have become central aspects of modern Russia’s geopolitical struggle with the West.
· Active measures are not solely the preserve of the intelligence services, but of other actors in the West as well, and these actors are expected to generate their own initiatives aimed at furthering the Kremlin’s disruptive agenda…”
– GEORGE C. MARSHALL EUROPEAN CENTER FOR SECURITY STUDIES – A GERMAN-AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP
DOS: “Disinformation is one of the Kremlin’s most important and far-reaching weapons. Russia has operationalized the concept of perpetual adversarial competition in the information environment by encouraging the development of a disinformation and propaganda ecosystem. This ecosystem creates and spreads false narratives to strategically advance the Kremlin’s policy goals. There is no subject off-limits to this firehose of falsehoods. Everything from human rights and environmental policy to assassinations and civilian-killing bombing campaigns are fair targets in Russia’s malign playbook.”
Only western counter-intel operations track the sources, IP addresses, and physical locations of foreign propaganda mills dispensing warehouse-full fake news into the global social and media mainstream. Only they follow the active measures: battalions of Kremlin-trained media warriors manning computer banks at foreign intel operations centers that train and deploy operatives to steal western technology and wage political and propaganda war against the West.
We should be clear about America’s security gap, the elite capture of these bots’ western counterparts at our “trusted” media outlets. Accordingly, the U.S. faces significant security asymmetry disadvantages.
Psyops deceptions aim to take the west’s eyes off the ball: Russia’s and China’s Long Game.
UKRAINE INVASION – INTERACTIVE MAP
China and Russia are natural, powerful allies occupying the same continent, arrayed against western political, military, cultural and financial hegemony. As for the west’s massive commercial interests and the prosperity it gained from it for a century, both adversaries seek to replace the old trade, ours, with new markets, the old currency and financial systems, with theirs.
Sensing epic American weakness which triggered this war in Europe, along with Barack Obama’s deliberate negligence, the second Cold War began with Joe Biden’s election. The security state was asleep at the wheel. The west’s former historical enemies, using the spy craft I outline here, and other means, are actively engaged in dividing and turning the west’s citizens against themselves; the nation against itself.
Likewise, the westward-looking east-and-central European nations – the former Warsaw Pact Axis - against their own allies in the west.
The Rossiya Segodnya propaganda assault is also a significant influence and security threat to American and global media. It infiltrates false narratives and speculation, fake news, meant to divert attention, to distract, stoke fear, suspicion, and paranoia against one’s own governments, one’s own military, and even one’s life-sustaining medicine.
Election tampering? That too. Just not the way most understand it.
“Friendly journalists” amplify the Kremlin’s continuously updated talking points.
These Trojan Horses, America’s adversaries living in our own backyard, are the friendly, chuckling, reassuring voices of America’s historical political isolationists.
They represent the elite captured western alt-media and faces of cultural icons with whom we have become familiar. These unserious entertainers and propagandists are far more concerned with self-emulation, clickbait, recognition and power, and profiting from self-dealing, than concern for freedoms and the welfare of their nation.
In their universe, America can do no right, it is always the Bad Guy. Every time!
Their narratives parallel the exact historical dogma of the political left, not of conservatives. Theirs is the dogma of America-hate, this time wrapped in the American flag, whereas the enemy’s cause which they regularly promote always preempts their own nation’s.
Make no mistake. The anti-Ukraine pundits are fully aware of what they are doing. They know well the arguments for or against American involvement in Ukraine.
What they won’t tell their American and European audiences is this:
Putin's shame laid bare as before and after maps show Russian territorial losses
“Since the start of Putin's bloody war almost a year ago, Ukrainian forces have retaken control of almost 30,000 square miles of territory initially seized by the invading forces.”
These media bloviators’ activities constitute subversion and sedition, for they advance the goals of America’s lethal adversaries to divide and weaken western social cohesion. Yours.
Understanding the Saul Alinsky-Cloward-Piven strategies, one can easily make the connections to Marxism’s aim to destroy the west. Meanwhile these same false conservatives conflate issues with magical thinking, by distracting the viewer with unrelated Marxist stories about BLM and antiFA or the latest news cycle. Distracting to make listeners accept the pro-Kremlin narratives, while never doubting the speaker’s loyalty to his own nation.
Earlier, America’s adversaries’ strategies were combined with intelligence operations focused on demoralizing the enemy, the West’s citizens supporting their national mission. The same tactic as the kinetic: WWII’s softening up of Iwo Jima by aerial bombardment before the assault on the island, and then deploying megaphones on the beaches blasting to the Japanese a promise of salvation: “Surrender Now!”
The ultimate goal was to defeat the enemy by whatever means necessary. It is best if the enemy has been weakened internally, politically, morally, economically, and financially. Softened up. It is best if the enemy’s will to prevail has been broken. Make the enemy get tired of the war! Reach for salvation Americans. Surrender now.
The campaign to demoralize is a powerful weapon that works only in the interest of those determined and desperate to prevail against those with weaker knees, softer lives, and an abundance of impatience. Demoralization convinces elite captured media to not campaign for their own allies, but rather, to rationalize for defunding the war effort - to only benefit the enemy.
In a war of attrition - the long game - the better strategy, the most money and most equipment, wins.
For America’s internal domestic enemies, the Marxist’s aim is to defund the police to cause social unrest. Both malicious campaigns are consequential to national and personal security.
Chinese propaganda and military exercises affect Asian nations now threatened by Chinese domination: Japan, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore. All of these are gearing up for countermeasures against a predatory China.
Japan is China’s most powerful adversary. It has been a historical Russian and Chinese enemy. As it were, Russia still claims the Southern Kuriles and Northern Territories. And there’s your Axis.
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China continues to claim Taiwan it sees not just as a breakaway republic, but as the mainland itself. Russia deems its own Ukraine and Japan’s northern territories. In other words, these two predatory states, aggressors in fear of their own downfall, and desperate to prevail, deploy sophisticated spycraft and media to demoralize and target weaker nations. It is why they will not stop at Ukraine, not at Poland, not at Taiwan, not at Japan.
All these nations and seas are vital to the American national security interest, and while we cannot afford a war, we can less afford to capitulate.
That is the reason the West, in line with…
…will defend its sphere of influence and hegemony, which represent global prosperity. All of these are in the national security interest.
“The Reagan Doctrine was stated by United States President Ronald Reagan in his State of the Union address on February 6, 1985: "We must not break faith with those who are risking their lives—on every continent from Afghanistan to Nicaragua—to defy Soviet-supported aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth."[1] It was a strategy implemented by the Reagan Administration to overwhelm the global influence of the Soviet Union….”
As Russia intended to control the seas, commerce and the military movements of its adversaries at Europe’s underbelly, as well as in the Baltic region to surround the entire European continent; the Chinese intend to dominate the Taiwan Straits, South China and Indochina seas, and the Philippine Sea. By control they can suppress US and NATO naval activity, replace western commercial and banking activity with their own, blackmail and control the shipments of food, medical supplies, technologies and energy supplies on their own terms.
They have already extended control into the western entertainment, media, education and knowledge space, airspace, sea space, and outer space, and the Internet of nations these two will have conquered. Russia intended not just the control of Ukraine, but to move westward, to retake the former Warsaw Pact territories, and then move further west to the Atlantic, Arctic, UK, Ireland and Iceland.
In other words, these are the exact same plans for which Europe has defeated Catherine the Great, Putin’s predecessor, for which America defeated Hitler after Hitler conquered all of Europe - for which hundreds of thousands of Americans gave their lives, property, fortunes, and families.
We, the United States and Europe, have everything to lose.
How might the reader arrive at these same conclusions?
By taking lessons from Russian history and the very statements of Russia’s leaders.
The truth is, Joe Biden and Obama have never taken decisive action. Always late on the uptake.
That is why we are where we are.
Remember: Roadkill is a daily reminder about indecision.
© Andrew G. Benjamin is in finance, real estate and equities, a former advisor to New York City mayor ‘s office (Subcommittee on Taxation, Finance and the Budget). Benjamin wrote extensively about politics, transnational and domestic, intelligence and military affairs, security and strategy, economic issues, Mideast, terrorism, technology and high end audio.
ADDITIONAL READING
IS UKRAINE IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST?
When Catherine the Great Invaded the Crimea
TUCKER CARLSON’S SCREWBALLS, CLOWNS, LEFTWINGERS, ANTISEMITES, & FAKE CONSERVATIVES
TODAY IT'S RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA. THEN IT WAS GERMAN PROPAGANDA
FORBES: China Helping Russia's War With Ukraine With Military Aid
UKRAINE DAILY UPDATES – INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR
DID JOE BIDEN BLOW UP THE NORDSTREAM PIPELINE
NORD STREAM SABOTAGE - AN AMERICAN BLACK OPERATION?
Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh's Pipe Dream
Debunking Seymour Hersh's Alta-Class claims
SEYMOUR HIRSCH’S NORDSTREAM SOPHISTRY? THE PROBLEM: IT NEVER HAPPENED
PSYOPS: The ULTIMATE Guide to Psychological Operations
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